Clayton A. Chan, D.D.S. Founder/Director

About Dr. Chan

Dr. Clayton Chan is a dental educator, trainer and consultant to dentists who span the globe from private practice to leading dental organizations. All attest to Dr. Chan's unique impact in the field of private practice, personal and organizational transformation and development.

Dr. Chan has shared platforms with leading authorities in the areas of occlusion, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, orthodontic/orthopedics and comprehensive restorative and continues to be a leader in advocating the use of objective measuring technologies to bring accountability to the clinical dental practice.

Occlusion Connections™ is designated as an Approved PACE Program Provider by the Academy of General Dentistry. The formal continuing dental education programs of this program provider are accepted by AGD for Fellowship/Mastership and membership maintenance credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by a state or provincial board of dentistry or AGD endorsement. The current term of approval extends from 9/1/2016 to 8/31/2020. Provider ID# 349336.

Welcome to OC

A new understanding is required of today’s dentist to grasp underlying factors that relates clinical dentistry to both the gnathic and neuromuscular principles. This journey is a blended process that brings an in depth understanding with clinical experience. Together with excellence based on honesty, respect, discipline and courage these organic concepts will come together in both skilled clinical application and bio-physiologic science. This is GNM.

Finding a Qualified GNM Dentist

Disclosure:
It is the responsibility of each patient to ask the right questions in order to determine whether a dentist is qualified to meet your particular dental needs. Dentist have varying degrees of knowledge, experience, training and skills. Occlusion Connections™ is not responsible for the diagnostic and clinical decision making that each dentist makes when treating their patients.

The dentist listed on this map have taken varying levels of OC courses. It is your responsibility to determine if each one is qualified to treat and help meet your particular needs.

This is a historic 50th Year that Myotronics commemorates its legacy and dedication to neuromuscular dental science, principles and clinical discipline. Dr. Bernard Jankelson a “true original”, pioneer, inventor and developer paved a different path to which we admire and follow with passion. He had a vision that fundamentally transformed the thinking of how the advanced dentist can bio-physiologically establish a more anatomically correct jaw relationship via his originating black box invention – the J1 Myomonitor. History can remind us that these fundamental scientific developments are based on objective measurements that have formulated our understanding, thinking and mind-set how we perform our dentistry today. These discoveries have challenged forward thinking minds and contributed to an evolutionary change that has impacted our profession.

I am honored to be a part of this Myotronics 50th Anniversary speakers line up, August 4th-5th, 2017. My presentation title is: “Buried NM Treasures – Clues in Our K7 scans that lead to NM Success”. Acknowledging the foundational principles of “Physiologic Rest” has been a hallmark among all neuromuscular clinicians. NM diagnosis begins at homeostasis. NM treatment whether phase I stabilization or phase II restorative or orthodontics should also end at homeostasis. The question we must ask ourselves after years of neuromuscular practice is, “Have we achieved our NM goals and effective treatments objectively with our clinical cases?”

I will be discussing these fundamental neuromuscular and gnathic concept as a means to challenge all wet fingered K7 clinicians in re-evaluating our diagnostic and treatment data.